Hooker'S Milkwort

Description

Identification: Plant 1-3 dm in height, stem glabrous. Leaves, at least at some nodes, in whorls. Racemes loosely flowered, obconical apically, to 6 cm long fully developed, their stalks 1-3 (-6) cm long. Bracts ovate, short-acuminate apically, about 1 mm long. Flowers lavender or similar variant, their stalks 2 mm long. Petaloid sepals somewhat dilated on each side basally (subhastate), oblongish above the base, acuminate apically, 3 mm long. Seed oblong-obovate, black, plump, sparsely short-pubescent, 1 mm long, the aril with its 2 elongate lobes appressed against one side for nearly its full length.